Ice-tool



Fhllll (N0 Model) J. B. FISCHER.

10E TOOL.

Patented Nov. 22,1881.

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JOSEPH B. FISCHER, OF HAMILTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR'OF TVVO-THIRDS TO WALTER BARE, OF SAME PLACE, AND MARTIN BARE, OF CINCINNATI,

OHIO.

ICE-TOOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 249,827, dated November 22, 1881.

Application filed September 13, 1881. (Nomodch) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JosEPH B. FISCHER, of Hamilton, Butler county, Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ice- Tools, of which the following is a specification, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side view of the tool with a portion of the handle broken away; Fig. 2, abottom View, and Fig. 3 a side view, with one of the clamps removed.

This invention pertains to handled tools, and relates to the devices for uniting the tool with the handle; and it consists, mainly, of a pair of side clamps bolted to the handle and provided with suitable tool-seats in the contiguous surfaces of the clamps and a clamping-bolt for drawing the clamps together.

The device as a tool-holder is applicable to tools other than ice-tools.

In the drawings, A is the handle, and D D are semi-tubular clamps attached to the handle by means of the bolt E. The clamps project beyond the end of the handle, as shown,

and in the contiguous surfaces of the clamps, at any proper point beyond the end of the handle, are cut or formed notches or recesses adapted to receive and retain the tool, The bolt E, passing through the clamps at a point 0 beyond the handle, serves to draw the clamps toward each other, and thus firmly clamp any tool properly placed between them.

In the drawings, B is the tool proper, which in this case is a double-ended ice-tool com- 5 bining a hook and a pusher. It is formed of a square steel bar,havingit s opposite ends drawn into bayonet-section, and bent so as to cause one of the ends to present an angle with reference to the handle different from the other end. The central and square portion, 0, of the tool is clamped in notches in the clamps, as clearly shown.

The dowel F aids in securing immobility of the tool, but it may be dispensed with, and

an aid to the clamp may be produced by a notch in the tool to straddle the bolt E, or by suitablelugs upon the tool to abut against the clamps, either upon their inside or outside.

The notches in which the tool-body O is seated are arranged, as shown, in such relation to each other and to the handle as to cause a straight tool to stand at the proper angle to act as a hook, whereby but one end of the double tool needs bending to secure the proper angles. Should a very short handle be permissible, the clamps may be united at their handle end by being bent from a single piecc,or-bywe1ding or otherwise, in which case the handle A and bolt E may be dispensed with. Aside from their office as a means of enhancing the length of the tool-holding device, the parts mentionedthe handle A and bolt Eserve as a means for uniting the clamps. 1

Variouslyformed tools having properly- 6 shaped bodies may be used in the clamps, and by adding to the number of notches in the clamps'and-varying their form in a manner not requiring the exercise of invention tools with differently-shaped bodies may be clamped.

The tools may be double-ended or singleended, and in the example shown the bend at G, in combination with the angular arrangement of the notches, permits a change in angles. Thus if the tool shown be reversed in the clamps its angles will be altered, which would not be the case were the tool straight or the notches arranged squarely across. This quality may be utilized with single or double 8o ended tools. Thus the tool H, independent of its fellow, may be arranged at fourdifferent angles in the handle by simply changing its position of insertion in the notches before being clamped. The tool-edges shown are arranged opposite each other to suit their opposite functions.

I claim as my invention- 1. The improved ice-tool, consisting of handle A and tool-prongs H and I, projecting from 0 the handle in opposite directions at different angles, combined and constructed substantially as set forth.

2. The improvedice-tool, consisting of the handle having an angular mortise through it 5 near one end, and the tool H, having shank O, with the bend G at theirjuncture, all combined substantially as set forth.

3. lhe improved ice-tool, consisting of the 5. The combination of handle A, semi-tubumortised handle A and double tool H I, havlar clamps D, having tool-1nortises arranged ing intermediate body, 0, and bend G at the angularly in their contiguous end faces, and juncture of the body with one of the tool ends, clam ping-bolts E E, substantially as set forth. [5

5 all combined substantially as set forth.

4. The improved ice-tool, consisting of the JOSEPH B. FISCHER. handle A, having an angular tool-mortise at one end, and the double tool II I, having in- 'Witnesses: termediate body, 0,- and bend G at thejuncture J. W. SEE, 10 of the body with one of said tool ends, all \VM. S. GIFFEN.

combined substantially as set forth. 

